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Title: Papers and proceedings of the Bergen County Historical Society
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Bergen County Historical Society
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Publisher: (New Jersey) : Press of the Evening Record
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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ed knittingneedle, temperd in a candle flame to a cherry heat, thendropped in sheeps tallow that had been melted. Oppositehe drills were six jointed arrangements that held the pipesthat had been ground to the required form. By the use of afever the drills and pipes were brought together in position(V the critical task—the holes through the center of the veryhard shell, where the least change in the line from the centerWould burst and ruin them. By another lever the pipes anddrills were immersed in water contained in a tank beneaththem, then the power was applied. When the drills had gone :J6 Wampum Industry in Bergen County. half through the length of the pipes the machine was stopped,the lever reversed, withdrawing the drills. The pipes were re-versed, the drills set and immersed and the machine set inmotion again until the holes were through the entire lengthfrom one and a half to six inches—six of each size done at onetime. The art of drilling under water, the use of buttermilk
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Indian with Wampum Moon and Pipes. for softening and bleaching were their discoveries and secrets,ami with their valuable machine were guarded and kept fromthe public. The machine was always kept on the second floor of thefactory, under lock and key, and to this day the number ofprisons, even of the families interested in the industry, thathave seen it are i\^\\ It is through the courtesy of Mr. Daniel Campbell, who Wampum Industry in Bergen County. 37 was a wampum maker, that the history and the privilege of aphotograph being made of what was the means of thousandsof pipes being well made, six at a time, and quickly, wasgiven. As there was no other machine in existence, the fearof its being copied if seen was the reason for the great careand secrecy in regard to it. TO WHOM SOLD. The descendants and historians make the statement that•\John Jacob Astor laid the foundation of his great wealththrough the Campbells wampum. There may be some truthin the statements. It is found that John

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